Memoirs of My Professional Career: Part 1

Memoirs of My Professional Career: Part 1This book begins with my retirement from the U. S. Navy and transition to civilian life in 1981. After a 20 year career as a regular officer. I was ready to move forward with hopes of accomplishing greater things. In preparing for retirement, I completed a graduate level course Strategy of Career Transition at Catholic University. This set me on the path of self evaluation to determine the right vocational fit for my second career. After completing

This book begins with my retirement from the U.S. Navy and transition to civilian life in 1981. After a 20 year career as a regular officer. I was ready to move forward with hopes of accomplishing greater things. In preparing for retirement, I completed a graduate level course Strategy of Career Transition at Catholic University. This set me on the path of self-evaluation to determine the right vocational fit for my second career. After completing psychological and vocational aptitude testing, I discovered I was best suited for a career in sales and marketing. With recent experience in the Far East and Middle East as a Navy pilot, I decided to seek a position as an International Marketing Manager with an aerospace company. I prepared numerous resumes with titles and accomplishments reworded into civilian language.

My professional career began with a small international sales and marketing company in Woodbury, Long Island, New York. I was assigned to customers in the Far East and Australasian area. In 1984, I joined Comtech, a telecommunications company in nearby Hauppauge. This provided the opportunity to develop business with high value programs within the Department of Defense. The following year, I was invited to work for a friend at RCA's Astro Electronics Division in Princeton, New Jersey. After General Electric purchased RCA, I was included in a layoff, but quickly found a new job at Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida. In 1989, a colleague invited me to join E-Systems in St. Petersburg, Florida to expand its space systems business. In 1995, I became part of the Raytheon team after they purchased E-Systems. I retired from Raytheon in 2002.